National Bolshevik Party

The National Bolshevik Party (NBP), also known as the Natsbols, was a far-right political party in Russia that existed from 1994 to 2007. The party was founded by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the party organized boycotts against Western goods; two of its members were arrested for illegally possessing grenades. The NBP was once allies with the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, but it withdrew from its alliance after its allies criticized the NBP; Limonov called Vladimir Zhirinovsky "a Jew masquerading as a Russian nationalist", a "sickness", and a "pathology". In 2001, Limonov was arrested for illegally purchasing weapons, and the party was banned by a lower court in 2005 and officially banned in 2007. Several Natsbols took part in protests to demand freedom of assembly, and they attacked the Serbian embassy in Moscow after Ratko Mladic was extradited to The Hague to be tried for war crimes. Limonov founded The Other Russia party in 2010 to replace the banned National Bolsheviks.